Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-04
A Sorely Disguised Journal.

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Our esteemed contemporary, the
San francisco Chronicle, is very much
excited over certain outrages which it
alleges to have been committed by the
delegates of South California to the
Grand Army Encampment in st.
Louis. In Saturdays issue of that
journal there was an elaborate edito-
rial arraignment of the members from
this section, in which they were ac-
cused Of slandering and back-capping
all other portions of the Golden State.
In Sundays number we are threat
ened with dire results if we do not, so
to speak, shut up and sing small. The
animosity of our contemporary seems
to be directed in an especial degree to
Los Angeles and San Diego counties,
San Bernardino and Ventura counties
having been mercifully exempted from
the contemplated vengeance outlined
in its issue of Saturday. Our large
and spirited delegation really appear
to have made themselves notably
conspicuous at st. Louis, and
to have attracted large meas
ure of attention to this region
from which they hail. One of their
crimes is doubtless that they took the
trouble to carry with them, or rather
to arrange attractively, very fine ex-
hibit of the products of this end of
the State. This objectionable crime
was intensified by the fact that in
mum bers the delegation which sought
ST. Louis from South California was
at least four times as numerous as the
combined representation of Northern
and Central California. We are in
clined to think that, Notwithstanding
the Chronicles spleen, we are entitled
to pride ourselves upon and to make
the most of these gratifying circum-
stances. Our principal offence re-
solves itself, as far as the Grand Army
delegation to St. Louis is concerned,
into the fact that we insisted that the
dog should be allowed to wag the tail,
instead of the tail the dog. The
majority ought to rule; and Gen.
Vandever having had four supporters
on the spot to Gen. Salomon's one,
ought to have been allowed to rule the
roost-to set the pace, as it were.
The Chronicle takes great exception
that several persons were amongst the
South California delegation who had a
high opinion of the real estate of this
sect on, and that these individuals
actually had the unblushing impu-
dence, in addition to their taking
display of our products, to give ex-
preston to such perverse views.
Dryden tells us. in hisnoble lines on
Alexander's Feast, that "none but
the brave deserve the fair" and,
by paraphrasis, we may be
allowed to say that the brave
especially deserve the fair lands
OF South California. Their comrades
in the war were perfectly right in
seeking to beguile the battle Scared
veterans out to this Goshen of the
modern dispeasation. We fail to see
lust where the Chronicle derives its
authority to rebuke this procedure
which, if it had been applied to in
creasing the population of Milpitas,
would doubtless have met with its
approval.
The truth is that South California
was put upon its mett,e in this matter,
as it will be in others, by
the often hostile and overbear-
ing disposition shown by other
portions of the State. In the whole
conduct of the northern and central
delegations of the G. A. R. to st.
Touis there was a marked lack of
comity towards their brethren OF the
South. Although only one-fourth as
numerous as our own, these gentle
men whirled through in advance with
! great flare of trumpets, ate and
drank up everything they could, and
are now overwhelmed with mortifica-
bon at having been distanced by their
rivals.
The depth of the Chronicles chagrin |
md ill-humor with this section is
nhoWn very forcibly by such passages !